incase
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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He should have appointed a family member he could trust to be his probate executor, and have had someone else appointed incase that first person died.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2014
Please note I said "average" incase you bring up some instance of one individual's racist remarks.
From Economist ● Nov. 26, 2013
"We wrap it inside a sweatband so that incase it leaks, the fluid will not get all over the bike or on James" More energy drink madness!
From Time Magazine Archive
Before she fell asleep, she tucked the alethiometer under the pillow, just incase.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
In the first place, an elaborately embroidered bodice must be made to incase Siegfrid's charming figure as if in a coat of enamel.
From Ticket No. "9672" by Kendall, Laura E.
The incased enrollment in medical schools during the past few years will help to relieve the shortage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hand was incased in a glove of wrought gold covered with precious stones, among which was a large diamond of unusual value.
From The Story of Malta by Ballou, Maturin Murray
Most of the original studding has been used as it stood, and the beams incased or hidden in the finish of the walls.
From Remodeled Farmhouses by Northend, Mary H.
Some lose it in indifference or carelessness; others in a frivolous flippancy; many escape these evils only to become incased in a hard dogmatism which is equally fatal to the spirit of wonder.
From How We Think by Dewey, John
Virtue is a precious gem though incased in a rough casket.”
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Garvice, Charles
These early experimenters found the greatest difficulty in incasing their wires in rubber, practical methods of working that substance being then unknown.
From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Towers, Walter Kellogg
Having done this, they found the pipe incasing the wires, acknowledged his triumph, and immediately gave him and his machine permanent employment.
From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1 by White, Andrew Dickson
The hook is a frequent design, and may be found in the field, incasing some geometrical figure.
From Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference by Holt, Rosa Belle
There was an entirely new hauteur incasing Miss Kirk, who upon her entrance wound into an attitude.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
While the others were incasing themselves in exclusive pride, she was eager to investigate and get en rapport with this new phase of humanity.
From From Jest to Earnest by Roe, Edward Payson
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